Did The Tonkawas Really EAT their Enemies?
Well, the television westerns that I grew up on let me down on this one if John Holland Jenkins told the truth in his book Recollections of Early Texas where he paints the Tonkawas as cannibals of a...
View ArticleSome Indian Problems W/ A Humorous Twist
In 1856, construction was begun on a new home for the James Cunningham family who had moved to Comanche County, Texas. This home still stands today on Highway 16 South just a few miles south of...
View ArticleErath, Comanche Counties: 1857 Saw Indian Attacks Begin
It is not clear why the Indians waited until 1857 to begin their raids on the people of Comanche, Erath, Brown counties and the surrounding area; however, this wait allowed the first comers to get...
View ArticleIndians Travel Through Erath To Comanche County
According to DeShields and Deaton (both recorded early day happenings), the year 1858 began with Indian attacks and ended with Indian attacks. These accounts are critical to the understanding of the...
View ArticleThe Fight At Salt Creek Mountain
The following is a horrible story, but it is what it is, and it shows us yet again just how hard it was to live on the Texas frontier during the 19th Century. ********** No history of Central Texas in…...
View ArticleThe Murder of Joe Baggett By Indians
The Baggett family lived in Cora, Texas in Comanche County. However, the family moved from Cora into what eventually became known as the Baggett Community, leaving vacant their cabin in Cora. According...
View ArticleWorshipping On The Frontier
It’s difficult to study history on the Texas frontier without studying E.L. Deaton, early settler to this part of the world. I quote him here as he describes worshipping on the Texas frontier. I pull...
View ArticleThe Battle Of Adobe Walls In Texas History
Actually, the title I’ve given this article is misleading; it should read Battles of Adobe Walls since there were, in fact, two separate battles for the old post. These were fought a decade apart in...
View ArticleFighting Indians Erath To Palo Pinto Counties
According to Joseph Carroll McConnell’s The West Texas Frontier, the following occurred in about 1867, during the days of Reconstruction and at a time when Indian attacks were so prevalent that many...
View ArticleThe Hog Creek Indian Fight In Brown County, Texas
Today, we travel back to 1870 to the Jesse Dickerson League survey in Brown County, Texas; however, first we have to journey through Comanche County where Frank Brown, George Wallace, and B. Grissom,...
View ArticleHerman Lehmann- Trapped Between 2 Cultures
He Was White, And Then He Was Red, And Then He Was White Again… And He Struggled To Adjust I bought the book, Nine Years Among the Indians (1927, edited by J. Marvin Hunter), for Rickey years ago...
View ArticleLast Indian Battle In Llano County, Texas
On one of our recent drives through south Texas on a rainy day, Ric and I just knew…we could feel the presence of those who once rode the Llano County hills. It was supposedly Apaches in a group of 20+...
View ArticleRobert Lesley Killed By Indians Not Hardin!
I thought everyone knew that the last man killed by an Indian (1874) was related to Curtis and Royce Lesley. Then, back when we had the John Wesley Hardin Days festival, I began to hear all kinds of...
View ArticleIsaac Kountz Killed By Indians In South Texas
Rickey, Missy Jones, and I recently visited South Texas, and it was in Junction, Texas that I first found the historical marker erected for a young man named Isaac Kountz of Kimble County, Texas. Of...
View ArticleNick Coalson Family Attacked By Indians
I believe I told you a while back that Rickey, Missy Jones, and I traveled to south Texas where I was able to do quite a bit of research for Texans United. It was in the yard…yes, yard…of our motel …...
View ArticleDays Before The Murder Of Ann Whitney
I’ve said it many times, we seldom know we are going to die until we are dead. If we knew, we would make better plans, wouldn’t we? During this Thanksgiving season, I’m hoping that we are all...
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